Ferdinando Pulton Explained

Ferdinando Pulton^[1] (1536–1618) was an English legal writer, the first to attempt a comprehensive book treating criminal law. This was his De pace Regis et regni, first published in 1609.^[2]

Pulton belonged to Lincoln's Inn, but he was a Roman Catholic, so that at that time a legal career was denied to him. He was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

He wrote also a Collection of Sundrie Statutes (1618). This is credited with making the term Star Chamber common in use.^[3] An earlier work was his Abstract of all the Penal Statutes.^[4]

He resided in Bourton, Buckinghamshire.^[5]

References

• Concise Dictionary of National Biography
• Ferdinando Pulton, Elizabethan Legal Editor. Virgil B.. Heltzel. Huntington Library Quarterly. 11. 1. 1947. 77–79. University of Pennsylvania Press. 10.2307/3816033. 3816033.

Notes

1. Ferdinand, Fardinando Pulton.
2. In print (2005), .
3. http://www.answers.com/topic/star-chamber?cat=biz-fin Star Chamber: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
4. https://archive.org/details/abstractofallpen00pult 1586 edition at Internet Archive
5. Web site: Borough of Buckingham (including Bourton, Lenborough and Gawcott) . 2007-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070729054743/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Buckingham/Index.html . 2007-07-29 . dead .